In 2009 had already released the movie ‘I Am Legend’, in which New York City was stripped of all human life and invaded by animals, plants and other non-human forms…
Do not know if Swiss artist Johanna Mårtensson saw the film or not but the fact is that she read an illuminut about the topic. In this article it was described how the earth would become if we human stopped there and cities to stay in God’s hands . In a few centuries, most of the buildings would collapse or be occupied by plants and animals, and bacteria would reestablish a new social order. Thus, the artist wanted to represent this apocalyptic theme by creating a city of bread, which called ‘Decoration’. The city with buildings constructed entirely of bread, has been photographed by the artist every day for six months, watching gradually deteriorated until its complete descomposition.

What Mårtensson wanted to show was the simple presentation of what will happen when the world curtain closes for humanity.